Scripting health bar

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#1

Hi there, I’m helping a friend work on their games UI and I thought that it would be a good idea to script part of it (as far as I’m aware they don’t have a scripter right now), but I can’t figure out how to script a textlabel for the health:

Script:

local plr = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local character = game:FindFirstChild(plr.Character)

character.Humanoid.MaxHealth.Changed:Connect(function()
script.Parent.Text = character.Humanoid.Health .. "/" .. character.Humanoid.MaxHealth
end)

character.Humanoid.Health.Changed:Connect(function()
script.Parent.Text = character.Humanoid.Health .. "/" .. character.Humanoid.MaxHealth
end)

Here’s the file structure for information:

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Output:

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#2

Should look more like this:

local character = plr.Character
character.humanoid:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Health"):Connect(function()
script.Parent.Text = character.Humanoid.Health .. "/" .. character.Humanoid.MaxHealth
end)
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#3

Still not working (sorry for the late response, my WiFi connection is glitching so much right now):

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#4

fyi this line
local character = game:FindFirstChild(plr.Character)
can be simplified to
local character = plr.Character or plr.CharacterAdded:Wait()

since the way you are using it right now, FindFirstChild may return character as nil

#5

Did originally have it set to this, using CharacterAdded now (thank you!) and it still doesn’t seem to be making a difference unfortunately, plus zero errors in output

Edit: Removing the wait for that brings up this:

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#6

You need the CharacterAdded:Wait() because you want the script to wait for the character to fully load, else the humanoid will be nil.

For the health changed part you should use the way that @Emskipo suggested with character.Humanoid:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Health"):Connect(function()

#7

I’m using both changes and nothing is happening.

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#8

local character = plr.Character or plr.CharacterAdded:Wait()

keep in the or

Also, might want to add a var for humanoid;

local humanoid = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")

#9

You probably have to update it at first as well, so I’d try adding this to the end:

script.Parent.Text = character.Humanoid.Health.."/"..character.Humanoid.MaxHealth

Since you access the humanoid so much, I’d also add a variable for it:

local Hum = character:FindFirstChildOfClass("Humanoid")
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#10

Finally works, thank you @Emskipo, @ReincarnatedC and @Inconcludable.

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